LONDON, UK: VSA Capital Group, an international investment banking and broking firm, announced its intention to apply for admission of its Ordinary Shares to trading on the Access segment of the Aquis Stock Exchange Growth Market. Admission is targeted for 9 September 2021.

VSA Highlights

· Headquartered in London, VSA is an international investment banking and broking firm, with offices in London and Shanghai, providing corporate finance, advisory and capital markets services to private and public companies.

· VSA’s focus is on providing an independent, solutions-driven service to clients across multiple sectors with a particular focus on natural resources, transitional energy, alternative energy, technology, media and telecoms (TMT) and the consumer and leisure sectors.

· VSA acts as retained adviser or broker to listed or quoted companies on various exchanges, and many of the VSA Capital’s clients are capitalised at over £100m.

· VSA’s longstanding focus on the natural resources sector has resulted in long-lasting and deep relationships across the world particularly in Asia and Africa as well as a strong understanding of the cultural nuances associated with doing business in each. With this sector focus VSA has been an early mover in the transitional energy space and has leading expertise in executing capital markets strategies across the full battery storage supply chain.

· VSA also owns minority stakes in Benjiami Limited, a cryptocurrency and blockchain focused investment house, Pure Reports Limited, a research, consulting, and advisory business to companies engaged in blockchain activities and Shanghai Mining Club Limited (“Shanghai Mining Club”) a forum to connect western mining companies with the broader Chinese investment community.

· As well as VSA’s permanent presence in Shanghai it has joint venture partnerships with Faida Investment Bank Limited (“Faida”) a leading investment bank regulated by the Capital Markets Authority in Kenya and with Moshe Capital Pty Ltd (“Moshe Capital”) an advisory and investment firm, regulated by the Financial Services Board in South Africa that advises and invests in African companies.

Andrew Monk, CEO of VSA said: “We are delighted to be listing on the Aquis Exchange. For VSA it is another step forward in our growth strategy which is very much to differentiate ourselves from our peer group and to provide capabilities that others don’t have.

VSA Capital is a leading adviser on Aquis. We are a leader in the whole value chain for Transitional Energy from mine to battery and energy storage to e mobility and across all forms of transitional energy including hydrogen. We have unique capabilities with our own office in Shanghai (China) and a growing network of partnerships across Africa.

These three pillars alongside our well-established investment banking capabilities and highly experienced team bode well for our ability to continue the performance we have shown in the last 5 years in tricky market conditions, and also to significantly create value for shareholders.

Our listing on Aquis shows our commitment to this market which we believe over time will become the “Nasdaq of London” as London needs a competitive environment to grow in the post Brexit environment as a monopoly with the London Stock Exchange will not be the best way to achieve this.”